Bassekou Kouyate | Fly Global Music

Posts tagged Bassekou Kouyate

Sahara Soul – featuring Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba, Tamikrest and Sidi Touré

By Damian Rafferty on January 14, 2013
This entry is filed under Events and tagged Barbican, Bassekou Kouyate, Celtic, dub, folk, Glasgow, London, Mali, ngoni, psychedelic, Sahara, soul, Tamikrest, tuareg, Worthy.

One of Africa’s richest musical heartlands, Mali today is sorely afflicted by internal conflict, an ongoing state of adversity from which this defiantly inspiring collaboration, uniting artists from three of Mali’s different musical cultures, arose to demonstrate their shared homeland’s strength, diversity, and its music’s power to bring people together.

26 January 2013 – Barbican, London

27 January 2013 – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (as part of Celtic Connections) Continue reading Sahara Soul – featuring Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba, Tamikrest and Sidi Touré

Afrocubism

By Tim Woodall on November 4, 2010
This entry is filed under Caribbean: Reviews and tagged Afrocubism, Bassekou Kouyate, Buena Vista, Cuba, Kora, Mali, ngoni.

According to World Circuit folklore, this was the album that got away. Apparently, what eventually became the iconic Buena Vista Social Club (BVSC) record was originally conceived as a Mali/Cuba collaboration.

Continue reading Afrocubism

V/A – Sound of the World Presents: Anywhere On This Road

By Gerry Hectic on June 26, 2010
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Europe: Reviews and tagged Africa, African Soul Rebels, Balkan, Bassekou Kouyate, blues, Buena Vista, Buika, Charlie Mingus, Chucho Valdes, compilation, Cuba, Czech Republic, Damien Marley, Dr, Ethiopian, festival, flamenco, Gilles Peterson, Gillett, hip hop, K'naan, Khaled, Lhasa, Lhasa De Sela, Mali, Maryam Gu, Nas, New Zealand, ngoni, Niger, Nneka, Ojos de Brujo, Orlando 'Cachaito' Lopez, reggae, Seasick Steve, soul, Sound of the World, South, Tinariwen, Womad, World Music, Yasim Levy. | 2 Comments

“The late, great Charlie Gillett had a passion for music”, Mark Coles, BBC World Service, June 2010.

Continue reading V/A – Sound of the World Presents: Anywhere On This Road

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – I Speak Fula

By Damian Rafferty on August 16, 2009
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews and tagged Bassekou Kouyate, Kora, Mali, ngoni, rock.

I Speak Fula strips away some of the ponderousness that flawed the otherwise delightful debut album from this most explosive live band and reveals far more of Bassekou as a result

Continue reading Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – I Speak Fula

V/A – Desert Blues 3

By Damian Rafferty on June 22, 2008
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews and tagged Ali Farka Toure, Bamako, Bassekou Kouyate, blues, Desert Blues, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, New York, Niger, Nigeria, Rokia Traore, Sahara, Senegal, Toumani Diabate. | 1 Comment

Network records have kept up the profoundly high level of quality control exhibited on the first two instalments of this exquisite series

Continue reading V/A – Desert Blues 3

Dee Bridgewater – Barbican, London (Live Review)

By Damian Rafferty on March 29, 2008
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews and tagged Barbican, Bassekou Kouyate, blues, Dee Dee Bridgewater, griot, jazz, London, Mali, ngoni.

My expectations are high as the two musical traditions I love most are to be played here tonight by jazz chanteuse Dee Dee Bridgewater and the collection of Malian stars she has assembled

Continue reading Dee Bridgewater – Barbican, London (Live Review)

African Soul Rebels 2008 – Poole Lighthouse

By Gerry Hectic on February 24, 2008
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews and tagged African Soul Rebels, Bamako, Barbican, Bassekou Kouyate, bongo, Brighton, Damon Albarn, disco, Europe, Fela, Femi Kuti, hip hop, London, Mali, Manchester, ngoni, Rachid Taha, Sage, Salif Keita, Senegal, soul, The Revolution, Tinariwen, Tony Allen.

“I’ve been looking forward to this for weeks,” I was told be my partner in the queue to get in. And I’m not surprised as when are you going to see Salif Keita and Tony Allen on the same night in Dorset?

Continue reading African Soul Rebels 2008 – Poole Lighthouse

WOMAD 2007 – Live Review

By Damian Rafferty on July 28, 2007
This entry is filed under Europe: Reviews and tagged Bassekou Kouyate, Eliza, festival, folk, ngoni, Womad. | 3 Comments

Apparently mud has different grades and it has gone from slurry to liquid on the site but we should be grateful — the Reading site would have been submerged. In these rather beautiful surroundings, WOMAD has begun with the best line-up in years to make up for the conditions underfoot

Continue reading WOMAD 2007 – Live Review

Dee Dee Bridgewater – Red Earth

By Gerry Hectic on June 20, 2007
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews, Europe: Reviews, US/Canada: Reviews and tagged Bamako, Bassekou Kouyate, blues, Dee Dee Bridgewater, DVD, funk, Gomez, griot, jazz, Mali, ngoni. | 1 Comment

Dee Dee has just released a wonderful album recorded in her spiritual homeland of Mali. Of course she was physically born in Memphis, TN but she explains on the DVD that as soon as she saw the bright Malian red earth, she felt that she had arrived home

Continue reading Dee Dee Bridgewater – Red Earth

Bassekou Kouyate – Blue Like a River to a Desert

By Conon Murphy on March 10, 2007
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Features and tagged Africa, Bassekou Kouyate, blues, Burkina Faso, Family, festival, Festival Au Desert, folk, France, Italy, Kora, Mali, Morocco, ngoni, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Taj Mahal, World Music.

The ngoni, the small plucked lute said to be a forerunner of the banjo is most often found taking a support rôle to the guitar or kora. But it wasn’t always thus, and the world’s leading exponent has just released a new album that aims to bring the instrument — and the Bamana tradition from which it hails — firmly back centre stage

Continue reading Bassekou Kouyate – Blue Like a River to a Desert

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – Segu Blue

By Damian Rafferty on February 24, 2007
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews and tagged Africa, Bamako, Bassekou Kouyate, blues, bongo, festival, griot, Mali, MP3s, ngoni. | 2 Comments

Bassekou Kouyaté is better known as the ngoni player on seminal recordings by Toumani Diabaté and Ali Farka Touré. Segu Blue is his assured, elegant and long overdue debut

Continue reading Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – Segu Blue

Festival sur le Niger – Dancing through the Tears

By Damian Rafferty on February 16, 2007
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews and tagged Bamako, Bassekou Kouyate, Europe, festival, Festival in the Desert, griot, Mali, ngoni, Niger. | 5 Comments

A few years ago a group of hoteliers got together in the pleasant but unremarkable stopover of Segou along the banks of the Niger river to work out how to get people to stay for a while in their town. Thus the Festival sur le Niger was born and this year it burst its banks

Continue reading Festival sur le Niger – Dancing through the Tears

The Festival in the Desert 2007 – Essakane, Mali

By Damian Rafferty on January 31, 2007
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews and tagged Air France, Bamako, Bassekou Kouyate, blues, Damon Albarn, Desert Blues, Family, festival, Festival Au Desert, Festival in the Desert, France, Ireland, Kora, Mali, Morocco, ngoni, Niger, Oumou Sangare, Salif Keita, Shuttle, Tinariwen, Toumani Diabate. | 4 Comments

Quite possibly the most difficult festival to get to on earth, certainly the most fun, The Festival in the Desert is held at Essakane every January. Head for Timbuktu and when you have reached the middle of nowhere, keep going for a few more hours of treacherous driving up and down sand dunes and you have the festival that makes Glastonbury seem about as adventurous as a trip to the local garden centre

Continue reading The Festival in the Desert 2007 – Essakane, Mali

Ali Farka Toure – Savane

By Damian Rafferty on May 21, 2006
This entry is filed under Africa/Middle East: Reviews and tagged Africa, Ali Farka Toure, Bassekou Kouyate, blues, Mali, ngoni, pee wee ellis, Toumani Diabate.

As keenly as the loss of this great artist has been felt around the world, there has also been an intense anticipation surrounding his last ever recording. We now know that the world’s most famous farmer was aware of his impending death in the last few years of his life and it is tempting to see the late burst of recordings and performances as his declared legacy

Continue reading Ali Farka Toure – Savane

Fly Global Music